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  • turtle weed
     n. a plant, Batis maritime, which grows near the sea: 1920 (Britton 133). = SAMPIRE <Black>
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  • turtle pussley
    [cf. PUSSLEY; from its attraction for turtles] n. a sea plant, Thalassia testudinum. <Exuma>
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  • turtle hole
    [cf. DJE turtle crawl] n. a pen in shallow water for keeping live turtles. <Andros, Long>
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  • turtle-back
    [cf. BACK n. 2] n. turtle shell. <Gen.>
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  • turpintime
     <Black>; turtintime <Mayag.> [cf. US Black tu'p'mtime idem ADD] n. turpentine.
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  • turn round
    [cf. US Black (song) "Jump down, turn round, pick a bale of cotton..,"] v. phr. to hurry, bustle. <Gen.>
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  • turn out (2)
    [from the outward turning of extra scar tissue or "proud flesh" (Cassidy p.c.)] v. phr. (of a wound) to become
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  • turn out (1)
    [cf. Gul. "Lawdge...tuhn out fuh dub annual sermont" (Writers' Program 1940:99); OED, (of persons) to assemble] v. phr. to attend
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  • turn off
    [OED, to divert (lit, and fig.)] n. a change in routine: 1977 For a turn off, or change, next morning,
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  • turning-out
    [cf. Gul. “White church dress en shoe fuh duh ‘Tuhnin-out’” (Writers' Program 1940: 99); cf. TURN OUT 1 ] n.
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